Cisco acquiring Tribe: A good move?
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It’s an unusual deal. Cisco, the networking equipment major company, is anticipated to acquire social network Tribe.net, reports the NYTimes.
Cisco has previously purchased a social network design firm, Five Across, and intends to create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring its business customers together online. This would be like the Dell’s Digg-clone web site called Ideastorm.
Three reactions: “The idea that Cisco is going to be a force in social networking is about as plausible as Ning being a force in optical switches.” — Marc Andreessen, Ning founder (interviewed by the NYTimes)
“If cable operators and telecom are the “media companies” then they are the antithesis of cool, and social networks thrive when they are cool. Media companies and service providers aka incumbents want control – Social networks thrive when there is no control, and the community is allowed to mutate.” — Om Malik, GigaOM
“The Tribe thing, though, just doesn’t make sense to me: the tech is much less suited to a corporate rollout, and I can’t imagine what else they’d do with it. Is Tribe’s tech even compatible with that of Five Across?” — Pete Cashmore, mashable
Mar 4, 2007 | By Nuno
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